Bunny can't even say I didn't mean to because he did mean back then to be as unwelcoming as he could be without being actively cruel. He just looks devastated as he is and gathers Dan up in his arms again.

"I don't know a black swan," he mutters, rather than revisit one of the ways this curse hammered a pretty successful wedge between him and the love of his life. It was temporary. They found each other all over again. It feels just now like nothing can stop them spinning back together.

"Like I said, this feels fairy tale. Goluboy and Cygne could be tulpas from retellings of real stories, or they could be fae nobility - some of the courts care a lot about legality. Less about jurisdiction. His bid to get me to sign away the Warren wouldn't make me give it to him, but him having a piece of paper that says I gave it to him might have gotten him allies willing to defend his claim. After we get out of this, after all the mortals are safe, I need to find out who he's working with. Or wanted to."